The Substrand Podcast

The Substrand Podcast

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The Substrand Podcast episodes

  • #6: A Cool Convo: The Man Behind Orange County's Conscious Community Centers with Shaheen Sadeghi
    On this episode I sat down with Shaheen Sadeghi, former Quicksilver president and founder of Lab Holding, a conscious real estate investment firm based in Southern California.
    If you’ve been to Orange County you’ve probably been to one of his developments. The Lab Anti-Mall, the Camp, or The Packing House. They’re kind of like little micro villages, bringing together craft food vendors, boutiques, art, and people of all types.
    Now you might wonder why I asked Shaheen to be on this podcast. After all, this is a show about personal development not real estate, right?
    Well it turns out the environments we live and work in play a huge role in shaping how we think, feel, and act. Those that inspire us, align with our energies, and bring out our best selves are the ones we want to be spending our time in.
    Shaheen’s got a knack for understanding what people and culture need. As president of Quicksilver he spent the bulk of his time thinking about the future, trends, and what the surf culture and community needed to perform at their best.
    As a developer he’s now helping cities an communities stay ahead of the curve, giving people centers to learn, connect, and work towards a better future.
    It was a blast hanging out with Shaheen. He carved some time out of his busy schedule to walk me through the core principles of his company, some of the big cultural shifts he sees taking place in the us, and what he thinks it takes for people to stay authentically creative.
    It’s a lot of high level stuff, but everything is super applicable on an individual level too. This said, we’re definitely going to have to have another chat at some point to dive even deeper.
    I hope you enjoy this show. And next time you’re in SoCal you’ll have to check out one of his spaces, he’s got 12 in the works so there’s a lot to look forward too.
    Links to The LAB Holding and some of their sites:
    www.labholding.com
    www.thelab.com
    www.thecampsite.com
    www.seedpeoplesmarket.com
    www.anaheimpackingdistrict.com
    www.centerstreetanaheim.com
    44 min
  • #5: Stories & Strategies On Trusting Your Intuition And Stepping Into Your Higher Self with Elly Bannon & Clea Martin
    This week’s show is a co-production between the Substrand and Self Adore, the podcast of beauty and self-care brand Honey and Be.
    We sat down with founders Elly Bannon and Clea Isabella to share our stories of personal growth and entrepreneurship.
    The idea for the show came when Charlie and Elly (old college friends) recently reconnected over their similar spiritual and business journeys.
    Elly and Clea took the leap to launch their own e-commerce brand, and Charlie’s building out a media platform after a 6-month long exploratory study in Asia.
    In this episode we chat about:
    What it took to trust our intuition and start living in more alignment with our purpose
    The relationship between entrepreneurship, personal development, and spiritual growth
    Daily routines and rituals that keep us grounded, clear, and focused on our goals
    The importance of self respect and self love and how they’re related to each other
    For more information on Honey and Be’s beauty products check out their product and podcast website:
    https://www.honeyandbe.com/
    1 hr 41 min
  • #4: Soul-Expression Session: How to Authentically Create Yourself (ft. Sound Healing) with Sydney Strabala
    This week I sat down with Sydney Strabala (@creatingsyd), a highly experienced program coordinator and passionate creator on a mission to empower human beings to step into their best selves.
    Syd's approach is multi-dimensional - she’s a certified Kundalini Yoga & meditation teacher, breathwork coach, and sound healing practitioner. She’s also a multi-media artist, creative director, and founder of The Underground Society - a creative social club that brings together artists through meet-ups and retreats around the world.
    You can’t put labels on Syd, but everything she does is rooted in the belief that authentic self expression and spirituality are intertwined. Her word for this integration is soul-expression.
    In this chat Syd shares what this term means, and how we can create from a place of deep love and inspiration. We also cover a bunch of other topics including:
    The sacred plant medicine cacao and its heart-opening properties
    Yoga as a science and technology
    Specific mantras to silence the mind and reset the nervous system
    Destiny and free will and why they're not mutually exclusive
    The real difference between the ego & the soul
    What it means to fully experience oneself
    To close things out Syd shared a sound healing meditation that you’re definitely going to want to tune into. Especially if you’ve never been on a sound healing journey, this is going to take you places.
    This said, lots of great things covered in this episode and I’m so honored to have had this lovely and beautiful conversation with such a sincere, intelligent and creative soul.
    Check out creatingsyd.com information about Syd and her sound healing sessions, meditation classes, and creative retreats.
    1 hr 31 min
  • #3: Owning Your Energy & Raising Our Vibrations With Ms. Violet Louise
    On this episode I sat down with Violet Louise (@raiseyourreikivibes), an Orange County based Reiki Master and psychic intuitive healer. She’s certified in traditional usui reiki, kundalini reiki, oncology reiki, animal reiki, and infertility/pregnancy/birth reiki - all of which have given her a very intricate comprehension of the energetic body, through which helps people gain a deeper understanding of their own energetic blockages and imbalances.
    People tend to think of reiki masters as healers that will rid them of imbalances and diseases, but Violet makes it clear that she’s simply a channel... giving people the tools and awareness they need to take the power into their own hands for their own self-healing journeys.
    We had a great chat, diving into her history and path, how she got into this line of work, and why she thinks everybody can benefit from reiki if they’re called to try.
    Reiki’s been known to uproot psychological, emotional and physical traumas to help people move their lives in the right direction, but if there’s one big theme to take away from this episode, it's that choosing to face these issues and raise our state, whether through reiki or any other sort of method, means taking on one of the biggest responsibilities of a lifetime, and should be done with attention, discipline, and positive intention.
    1 hr 15 min
  • #2: Dealing With Darkness, Reinventing Yourself, & Manifesting Your Legacy with Damon D'Amore
    About Damon D’Amore:
    Damon D’Amore specializes working with two distinct types of leaders: C-Suite executives and founding teams. His work with corporate C-Suite executives focuses on legacy and helping leaders accomplish current tactical goals that ultimately facilitate their personal or organizational legacy at retirement. Mr. D’Amore works with founding teams of companies positioned for hyper-growth focusing on implementing personal performance systems and positioning these companies to scale into industry or category-leading organizations. He works directly with these leaders or via their institutional and venture investors.
    He has more than fifteen years’ experience working one-on-one with hundreds of top CEOs, founders and executives at Fortune 100 to 1000 firms such as Walmart, PepsiCo, DirecTV, NASCAR, Subway and Yahoo!.
    Mr. D’Amore is a serial entrepreneur, founder, board member, investor and adviser to multiple international companies.
    He founded multiple startups after long careers deep in the media and entertainment sectors producing programs such as Undercover Boss and The Apprentice. 
    Mr. D’Amore began his career in global finance building international businesses for the market leading firm Cantor Fitzgerald. He serves as mentor and lecturer to Top 25 MBA programs such as USC, NYU and Columbia, and acted as spokesperson and host for an American Express and Discovery Channel show promoting entrepreneurship.
    Mr. D’Amore speaks internationally on the topics of legacy, personal development, and applying lessons of entrepreneurship and innovation to corporate environments.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Uniting the World through an Experimental City, Personal Transformation & the Yoga of Work with B

    When Bill Sullivan moved to Auroville in 1974, he dropped the -ill from his name and became B. Just B. He had a steady job teaching at a university in Los Angeles, but when he learned about an experimental township being built in India, he had to make a radical shift and join the cause he’d been searching for since he was just a boy.

    Auroville at the time was nothing but a barren, blazing hot desert with one BIG IDEA: to realize human unity and be “a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and nationalities”.

    When the goings got rough it was this vision, his faith in the ‘divine consciousness’, and a strong love connection with the city (and a beautiful young Brazilian woman) that kept B building up his city, himself, and his personal story of almost 80 years.

    In this podcast, B shares parts of his story and learnings he’s had along the way - leaping into the journey of a lifetime, different techniques for exploring the mind + body + soul connection, and his #1 piece of advice for crafting an epic life story: JUST START WRITING IT!

    Today B’s (and everyone else’s of course) Auroville has over 4,000 residents and successfully governs itself as a community that belongs to humanity. It aims to be a center of transformation, where individuals from around the world work towards their own personal progress (mind, body, & spirit) in the process of working, experimenting, and creating for something bigger than themselves or personal profit (The Yoga of Work).

    Ecological sustainability projects, architectural design & consulting, and a range of other innovative projects help sustain Auroville’s largely cashless society, and it continues to collaborate with nations around the world on social, economic, and environmental initiatives to further the evolution of the human race.

    More information on Auroville and it’s history, philosophy, and ongoing events, projects, and workshops can be found at Auroville.org.

    59 min

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